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Draft Income tax Bill, 2025: LLPs likely to retain LTCG benefits

Govt likely to fix key omission regarding AMT

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Industry bodies have flagged the issue to the Parliamentary Select Committee currently reviewing the proposed legislation | Illustration: Ajaya Mohanty

Monika Yadav New Delhi

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The government is likely to fix a key omission in the draft Income Tax (I-T) Bill, 2025, which could have widened the scope of alternate minimum tax (AMT) for non-corporate taxpayers such as partnership firms and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) that were earning only long-term capital gains (LTCG), according to a senior official.
 
The proposed legislation had removed a reference to Chapter VI-A deductions, which serves as a key qualifier for when AMT applies to non-corporate entities. Without this reference, the draft Bill appeared to imply that such entities would be liable to pay AMT.
 
AMT, levied at 18.5 per